214 KILLED
U.S. TORNADOES > TAKE TOLL. Heavy Property Loss. hundreds of people are INJURED. United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. (Received March 23, 9.5 a.m.) NEW YORK, March 22. A message fror» Birmingham (Alabama) states that freakish March tornadoes killed at least 214 persons in five Southern States on Monday and early on Tuesday. The death list grew during the night as communities, which had been cut off by wind and rain, restored communication. Dawn brought reports of additional Natalities from rescue parties searching the wreckage. There were 169 dead in Alabama. 30 in Georgia, 12 in Tennessee, 2 in Kentucky and 1 in South Carolina. The property loss is heavy and hundreds of people were injured. The heavy weather also resulted in two serious aeroplane accidents. The charred wreckage in an orchard is all that remains of an American Airways 'plane which became lost in the fog in the Northern California mountains. Seven persons were killed. The liner struck high tension wires and then plunged to the ground. The wreckage was scattered over five acres. A Trans-Continental air mail machine crashed in the Ohio River. The pilot and a woman passenger were killed.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 380, 23 March 1932, Page 1
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